[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 187 (Monday, November 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H5675]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the 
following prayer:
  Holy God, may we seek You this day, that You would allow Yourself to 
be found. May we call upon You that You would hear our prayers.
  All You ask of us is that we forsake our wicked ways, behavior that 
tears down, wounds, and causes pain intended to demean and dehumanize 
another. You require that we forsake our unrighteous thoughts, thinking 
that is not just contrary to Your will, but brazenly opposed to Your 
love for all creation.
  Let us each return to You, setting aside both our shame and our 
pride, that You would have compassion on us. Let us come back into 
right relationship with You, where we will receive the abundance of 
Your pardon.
  It is clear that Your thoughts are not our thoughts, Your ways are 
not our ways. For sure as the heavens are above this Earth, so are Your 
ways higher than our ways. Your thoughts exceed well beyond our own.
  With humility, then, we offer ourselves, our thoughts, our ways, and 
our very beings to Your service this day.
  In the magnificence of Your name we dare to pray.
  Amen.

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